Paul Julian (artist)

Paul Hull Julian (June 25, 1914 – September 5, 1995) was an American background animator, sound effects artist and voice actor for Warner Bros. Cartoons.

In October 1939, he landed a job in Los Angeles as layout and background artist at Leon Schlesinger's animation studio, "Termite Terrace".

The sound was noticed by director Chuck Jones and used in the first Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner short Fast and Furry-ous in 1949.

He also was a background and production designer for Hanna-Barbera and for the 1978 anime fantasy Winds of Change, based on Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Julian also had a long working relationship with Roger Corman providing artwork for many of his movies, including Dementia 13 and The Terror.

Study for Julian's mural Orange Picking (1942), commissioned by the Section of Painting and Sculpture for the post office in Fullerton, California [ 1 ]